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[happydog23]

I never get any exciting artifacts.  (though that might be changing...)  In fact on my current fort I just had my 5th artifact and now I'm starting to question the world I generated...

I noticed artifact number 3:
A boring fractal chest... But that name "monkeven"  Didn't mean anything to me at first.

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Artifact 4 I took note of... It is still worth 25% of my fortress.  It is a thong.  With jewels hanging off it.  Named Satiny Arm.

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And now my 5th artifact for this fort...  The Brand of Sounding... A throne with more hanging rings on it... and a picture of a battle... on The National Seducer.

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So far I've got Monks, Thongs with "family jewels", and battles over "The National Seducer."

Not sure if this has to do with me modding my birthrate low...  Or the fact that every goblin ambush has had a human in it, but I'm beginning to get concerned about the world my dwarves are living in.

[Skorpion]

Most valuable statue EVER.

And yes, it looks like I went around forbidding things. But I didn't; he just grabbed it all on his own.

[happydog23]

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I never get any exciting artifacts.  (though that might be changing...)  In fact on my current fort I just had my 5th artifact and now I'm starting to question the world I generated...

I noticed artifact number 3:
A boring fractal chest... But that name "monkeven"  Didn't mean anything to me at first.
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Artifact 4 I took note of... It is still worth 25% of my fortress.  It is a thong.  With jewels hanging off it.  Named Satiny Arm.

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And now my 5th artifact for this fort...  The Brand of Sounding... A throne with more hanging rings on it... and a picture of a battle... on The National Seducer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So far I've got Monks, Thongs with "family jewels", and battles over "The National Seducer."

Not sure if this has to do with me modding my birthrate low...  Or the fact that every goblin ambush has had a human in it, but I'm beginning to get concerned about the world my dwarves are living in.
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My next artifact was an armor stand... with an image of my previous artifact thong on it...

So now I have the artifact thong... and an armor stand wearing a replica of it to put on display.  Perfect... now if I get a few more pieces, my dwarves can open "Urista's Secret"

[assimilateur]

And yes, it looks like I went around forbidding things.

Could you explain to me how exactly that trick is supposed to work? Last time I tried forbidding ingredients (and later allowing them once they got carried to the workshop), they ended up not being used, and I think were carried back to the relevant stockpiles even before the artifact was completed.

[kilakan]

you don't forbid the ones you want him to use, you forbid the ones you don't XD

[HatfieldCW]

Here's one from a recent fort.  Migrant clothier goes fey, and I have just enough time to build him a shop and buy him some cloth from the friendly neighbors.  He produces this:

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Behold, the Passage of Bristles, an unfortunately named green jockstrap!  Cowabunga!

[Jacob/Lee]

Mine is a raw adamantine mug with pictures of murderous carp and elephants worth 751K.

Sadly, the object and its creator was lost in the goblin siege of 217 and never recovered. There goes my Masterwork tables and chairs in my royal dining room.

[Lemunde]

I got this one a couple of nights ago in my last fortress.

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[InsanityPrelude]

I have a heavily decorated dark elf bone chain. Nothing too special, but I think it's pretty badass.

[assimilateur]

you don't forbid the ones you want him to use, you forbid the ones you don't XD

Yeah, I guess you forbid felsite so they use platinum nuggets for a mason's mood, right? That doesn't explain the supposed common wisdom of people increasing their number of ingredients via forbidding.

[o_O[WTFace]]

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=49177.0

Your dorf wants 1 each of rocks and bars and shells.  She brings back a rock, then goes to get a bar.  Forbid the rock, then she brings back a bar and goes to get a new rock.  Unforbid the rock, then when she comes back she sees the brackets of forbidding gone, uses both.  Repeat as desired, although I think Planepacking an artifact requires a different method because this onesupposedly has a limit of (n^2)-(n) total things on it. 

[Euld]

you don't forbid the ones you want him to use, you forbid the ones you don't XD

Yeah, I guess you forbid felsite so they use platinum nuggets for a mason's mood, right? That doesn't explain the supposed common wisdom of people increasing their number of ingredients via forbidding.

Try removing your stockpiles so your dwarves won't take away the extra items.  I've managed to use the cheat you're talking about, and yes, dwarves restockpiling stuff is problem, or a disadvantage.

[Lord Shonus]

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=49177.0

Your dorf wants 1 each of rocks and bars and shells.  She brings back a rock, then goes to get a bar.  Forbid the rock, then she brings back a bar and goes to get a new rock.  Unforbid the rock, then when she comes back she sees the brackets of forbidding gone, uses both.  Repeat as desired, although I think Planepacking an artifact requires a different method because this onesupposedly has a limit of (n^2)-(n) total things on it. 

Planepacked artifacts have something to do with the "Dwarves can go outside" order.

[assimilateur]

Thanks for the input, I'll have to try this shortly.

[BodyGripper]

Kithnecak, "The Scarce Neutralization", a Native Copper Mechanism.  Covered in native copper and platinum, with an engraving of a lizard.  The artifact itself, while neat, isn't really "best artifact ever" material, but its name is really cool.  I HAVE to use it in some sort of elaborate killing machine.